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Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk with Benjamin Scheuer. Reviews include Carousel, Mean Girls, The Sting @ Paper Mill Playhouse, and Marilyn Maye: 90 At Last! @ Feinstein’s/54 Below.

 

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Peter Filichia | [email protected] | Facebook

PETER FILICHIA is a theater journalist and historian with a number of books, his most recent is, “The Great Parade”, available everywhere. His columns appear at MTI, Masterworks Broadway, Broadway Select and many other places.

James Marino | [email protected] | Twitter | Facebook

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Michael Portantiere | [email protected] | Facebook

MICHAEL PORTANTIERE is a theater reviewer and essayist. He is also a theatrical photographer whose photos have appeared in The New York Times and other major publications. You can see his photography work at FollowSpotPhoto.com.

 

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Guest: Benjamin Scheuer

“Tell the truth and make it rhyme.” — John Lennon

THE LION

Monday, April 30, 2018

A one-night-only performance of THE LION, the Drama Desk Award-winning show written and performed by Benjamin Scheuer, with all proceeds benefiting the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Benjamin Scheuer is an American songwriter, performer, and playwright.

Scheuer wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed one-man musical THE LION, which toured the US and Europe from 2014-2017. THE LION won the 2015 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance and the 2015 Off-West End Award for Best New Musical.

Scheuer’s album “Songs from THE LION” debuted in the Billboard top-10. In collaboration with animator Peter Baynton, Scheuer created animated videos for his songs “Cure,” “The Lion,” “Cookie-tin Banjo,” and “Weather The Storm.” These videos garnered two consecutive Public Choice Awards for Best Music Video at the British Animation Awards, the award for Best Commissioned Film at the Annecy Film Festival, and Best Music Video at London’s Encounters Film Festival.

Scheuer is a survivor of Hodgkins Lymphoma. With photographer Riya Lerner, he created the photography-book “Between Two Spaces,” from which 50% of proceeds benefit the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society.

Scheuer is currently working on new album, and writing a new musical. He lives in New York City.

 

www.BenjaminScheuer.com

www.BetweenTwoSpaces.com

@BenjaminScheuer

Reviews: 

PF + MP + JM: Carousel @ Imperial Theatre, 249 West 45th Street

STAGESTRUCK by Peter Filichia: Before She Was Ethel Mertz

Of course she’ll always be known as TV’s Ethel Mertz. But did you know that years before I Love Lucy came to the small screen, Vivian Vance had a career in the theater, and had more than one fascinating brush with famous stars and shows?

PF + MP + JM: Mean Girls @ August Wilson Theatre, 245 West 52nd Street

PF + MP + JM: The Sting @ Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn, NJ, through April 29, 2018

MP: Marilyn Maye: 90 At Last! @ Feinstein’s/54 Below, April 10 – 29, 2018

 

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PF: Wheelhouse Theater Company‘s production of Happy Birthday, Wanda June @ The Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street, through April 28, 2018

Explicit: No

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The Lion

1 Cookie-Tin Banjo

2 Weather The Storm

3 The Lion

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Guest: Lindsey Ferrentino

Lindsey Ferrentino is a New York-based playwright originally from Florida. Lindsey’s critically acclaimed Ugly Lies the Bone premiered at Roundabout Underground, is about to open at The National Theatre in London, and has been produced at theaters across the country. Lindsey’s full length plays include Ugly Lies the Bone, Amy and the Orphans, Kokomo, Moonlight on the Bayou, Magic Man, and Paradise Bar and Grill. They have been developed at Atlantic Theater Company, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, MCC, The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Premiere Stages, Florida Studio Theater, The Great Plains Theater Conference, 3LD Art and Technology Center, Manhattan Repertory Theater, and The Marilyn Monroe Theater in New York. Her work has been seen regionally at The Kennedy Center in DC, The Alliance Theater in Georgia, The Blank Theater in LA, and The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. Lindsey is a recipient of the Edward Albee Playwriting Fellowship and Residency as well as Blue Ridge Playwriting Fellowship. Her short stories have been published in New York Magazine and Aaduna Literary Magazine. She is the recipient of the National Art Club’s Kesserling Prize, Laurents/Hatcher Citation of Excellence, ASCAP Cole Porter Playwriting Prize, Holland New Voices Playwriting Award, Paul Newman Drama Award, made the 2015 Kilroys List, finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn, nominated for the Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award, and is the only two time finalist for the Kendeda Playwriting Prize. Lindsey is currently under commission for new plays from: Roundabout Theatre Company, The Public, The Tricycle, The Geffen, South Coast Repertory, The National Theatre, and a television series for Big Beach Films/TV. She holds a BFA from New York University and two MFA’s in playwriting from Hunter College and the Yale School of Drama.

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Amy and the Orphans @ Roundabout Theatre Company

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5) This Week’s Theatrical Schedule

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk with Drew Droege. Reviews include Frozen, Bobbie Clearly @ Roundabout Underground‎, Rocktopia, Hitler’s Tasters @ Centenary Stage Company, Lobby Hero, Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, and Cy Coleman: A Jazzman’s Broadway released by Harbinger Records

 

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Panel:

Peter Filichia | [email protected] | Facebook

PETER FILICHIA is a theater journalist and historian with a number of books, his most recent is, “The Great Parade”, available everywhere. His columns appear at MTI, Masterworks Broadway, Broadway Select and many other places.

James Marino | [email protected] | Twitter | Facebook

BroadwayStars

Michael Portantiere | [email protected] | Facebook

MICHAEL PORTANTIERE is a theater reviewer and essayist. He is also a theatrical photographer whose photos have appeared in The New York Times and other major publications. You can see his photography work at FollowSpotPhoto.com.

 

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Guest:Drew Droege

https://www.drewdroege.com/

Twitter @DrewDroege

https://www.brightcolorsandboldpatterns.com/

Bright Colors And Bold Patterns – the Off Broadway hit hailed as “scorchingly funny” by The New York Times – has announced its fourth and final extension as the show’s author and original star Drew Droege (the internet’s “Chloë,” “Drunk History,” “Heathers” on Paramount TV) returns to finish the triumphant five-month run Thursday, April 5 through Monday, April 9. The final performance will be filmed by BroadwayHD, the premiere streaming service that brings live theater productions to viewers all over the world, to be broadcast available on the platform later this season.

The show continues its triumphant run after stellar reviews and popular demand at SoHo Playhouse (15 Vandam Street, between 6th Avenue and Varick Street in Manhattan). Tickets are on sale at BrightColorsandBoldPatterns.com.

Directed by Michael Urie (Torch Song, Buyer & Cellar, “Ugly Betty”), Bright Colors And Bold Patterns has returned to New York following a smash three-week engagement last season. After the run closes, Droege plans to bring the production around the country on a national tour.

The BroadwayHD production will be produced by Stewart F. Lane and Bonnie Comley and directed by David Horn, executive producer of PBS’s Great Performances for WNET. The multi-camera capture will deliver the live performance specifically for a streaming audience, bringing this unique performance to life for viewing to subscribers anytime, anywhere.

Bright Colors And Bold Patterns is a riotous new solo play that storms the stage with ferocity and wit, deemed “hilarious” and “uproarious” by The New Yorker, “fantastic” and “pure magic” by Time Out New York, and “side-splitting” and “fresh” from The Huffington Post. It has also been hailed as “raucous, witty and occasionally moving” by The Daily Beast, “a very funny play” by The New York Post, “outrageous and stinging” by Out Magazine and “relentlessly funny” by Buzzfeed.

Josh and Brennan are about to get married in Palm Springs on a lovely Saturday afternoon. However, the night before becomes a drunken, drug-fueled riot, because their friend Gerry has arrived, furious that their invitation says “Please refrain from wearing bright colors or bold patterns.” In the struggle for equality, what do we really want? What do we lose? And is there any cocaine left?

Bright Colors And Bold Patterns features set design by Dara Wishingrad a[...]